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The Miner's Tale
Ryan, R. M.
R. M. Ryan. Vaudeville in the Dark: Poems (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2010), pp. 20-21.
A poetic tribute in thirty-six lines that recalls memorizing GP in a tenth-grade English class.
The Mind of the Book: Pictorial Title Pages.
Fowler, Alastair.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Contributes to a history of the "pictorial title page" in English printing, identifying continuities and developments by studying sixteen examples (sixteenth-nineteenth centuries), including the frontispiece to William Thynne's edition of Chaucer's…
The Mind Distended: The 'Retraction' 'Miller's Tale,' and 'Summoner'sTale'
Tschann, Judith.
Jean E. Jost, ed. Chaucer's Humor: Critical Essays (New York and London: Garland, 1994), pp. 349-78.
Like Ret, the farts in MiltT and SumT remake something for their recipients. On the highest level of abstraction, they combine to remake time from the "end" perspective of death.
The Millere Was a Stout Carl for the Nones
Lambdin, Laura C.,and Robert T. Lambdin.
Laura C. Lambdin and Robert T. Lambdin, eds. Chaucer's Pilgrims: An Historical Guide to the Pilgrims in the "Canterbury Tales" (Westport, Conn.; and London: Greenwood, 1996), pp. 271-80.
Consistent with contemporary social and economic conditions, the Miller of GP aspires to the gentry although he "is still rooted in the peasantry." Bridging the courtly KnT and the low-class RvT, Chaucer's MilT--like the Miller's…
The Miller's Wife in Chaucer's 'Reeve's Tale'
Gosselink, Robert
English Quarterly 6.1 (1973): 1-8.
Summarizes RvT and explores the characterization and motives of Symkyn's wife, suggesting the possibility that she intentionally hit her husband with the staff.
The Miller's True Story
Long, Charles.
Interpretations 6 (1974): 7-13.
By examining Chaucer's handling of his material and the verbal texture of MilT, we can determine the nature of the prior acquaintance of the Reeve and the Miller. The tale "is almost certainly based on a real episode...Robyn the Miller is Old John's…
The Miller's Tale: A Complete Episode from the Canterbury Tales
Healey, M. K.
Glasgow: Foulis Archive Press, 1974.
Limited edition art-book version of MilT that uses the Nevill Coghill trans.
The Miller's Tale, Lines 3466-3499: Narrative Inconsistency and the First Fragment of The Canterbury Tales
Eyler, Joshua R., and John P. Sexton.
ANQ 21.3 (2008): 2-6.
Nicholas's door in MilT (knocked off of its hinges in one moment and then closed on its hinges a few minutes later) is a semiotic hinge in the play between public and private space, echoing Theseus's attempts to control space in KnT.
The Miller's Tale, by Geoffrey Chaucer
Richmond, E. B., trans.
London: Hesperus, 2008.
Facing-page version of MilPT and the GP description of the Miller, with modernization in iambic pentameter facing the Middle English text from the Riverside edition. Contains a descriptive introduction, brief notes (pp. 53-55), and a biographical…
The Miller's Tale--An UnBoethian Interpretation
Bloomfield, Morton W.
Jerome Mandel and Bruce A. Rosenberg, eds. Medieval Literature and Folklore Studies: Essays in Honor of Francis Lee Utley (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1970), pp. 205-11.
Contends that MilT differs from both KnT and RvT in its presentation of a world that lacks rational order or poetic justice. Alison escapes punishment and John is punished unfairly so that behind the jollity and illusion of order in the MilT lies…
The Miller's Tale Read in Middle English by Norman Davis.
Davis, Norman, reader.
London: Tellways, [1970].
Item not seen.
The Miller's Tale on CD-ROM
Robinson, Peter, ed., with Barbara Bordalejo and Orietta Da Rold, and contributions by Lorna Stevenson, Elizabeth Solopova, and Daniel W. Mosser.
Leicester: Scholarly Digital Editions, 2004.
Includes interlinked images and transcriptions of all fifty-eight pre-1500 versions of MilPT, with complete collations (linked to variant maps), commentaries on family relationships of the versions, and stemmatic commentary on key readings.
The Miller's Tale in China
Beidler, Peter G.
Chaucer Newsletter 11:2 (1989): 3, 8.
Analyzes "the state of Chaucer studies in China" by reviewing "Fang Zhong's translation into Chinese" of MilT. Beginning in the 1930s, Fang Zhong translated TC and most of CT in prose, modifying the Middle English version in two ways: changes to…
The Miller's Tale as Critical Problem and Dirty Joke
Martin, B. K.
G. A. Wilkes, and A. P. Riemer, eds. Studies in Chaucer. (Sydney: University of Sydney, 1981), pp. 86-120.
Analyzes plot and content to show that MilT is a popular tale, not a bookish one, and is based on twelve "joke motifs."
The Miller's Tale and Heile van Beersele
Biggs, Frederick M.
Review of English Studies 56 (2005): 497-523
Difficulties in dealing with the role of the three tubs (along with other issues) suggest that Chaucer's MilT is the source for the Flemish version. Chaucer may have originated this Tale to reflect on the theme of God's control, an idea also…
The Miller's Tale and Decameron 3.4
Biggs, Frederick M.
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 108 (2009): 59-80.
Biggs argues that Decameron 3.4 is a source for MilT, inspiring the latter's density of detail, its religious sentiment, and many of its narrative features, particularly the Flood story. MilP also echoes Boccaccio's "Conclusione dell'autore" and its…
The Miller's Tale
Hieatt, Constance B., ed.
New York: Odyssey Press, [1970].
Edits MilT with notes and glossary, an introduction, a discussion of Chaucer's language, a brief bibliography, and a translation of the Flemish analogue to MilT, "The Three Guests of Heile of Bersele." The introduction considers the date of…
The Miller's Tale
Piehler, Paul.
Hudson, Québec: Golden Clarion Literary Services, 1986.
Item not seen; the WorldCat records indicate that this is a reading by Piehler in Middle English of MilT, summarized as "A comical story about three men after one woman's attention, set in medieval England.
The Miller's Tale
Adkins, Lieuen, trans.
San Francisco: Bellerophon, 1973.
Parallel-column version of MilPT in Middle English [Skeat edition] and modern rhymed couplets, accompanied by numerous b&w illustrations in comic-book style by Gilbert Shelton.
The Miller's Tale
Cunningham, John E., ed.
Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1985.
Classroom text of MilT, with study-guide Introduction, notes, brief glossary and bibliography. The Introduction includes commentary on Chaucer's life, the "Framework and Origin" of CT, "how to read" Chaucer, the "Miller and his Language," and…
The Miller's Tale
Thomas, Paul R., dir.
Provo, Utah : Chaucer Studio, 1996.
Recorded at radio station KRCW, Santa Monica College, during the Tenth International Congress of the New Chaucer Society. Re-edited and digitally mastered by Troy Sales and Paul R. Thomas in 2003.
The Miller's Tale
Ross, Thomas W., ed.
Norman: University of Oklahoma, 1983.
The first CT "Variorum" to appear, Ross's edition, based on the Hengwrt, collates ten manuscripts and twenty printed editions with full critical apparatus to "present the MilT as Chaucer wrote it, as nearly as our present knowledge and resources…
The Miller's Prologue and Tale
Spearing, A. C., reader.
London: Cambridge University Press, 1976.
Item not seen; cited in WorldCat, which also cites a CD release in 1998.
The Miller's Prologue and Tale
Swan, Richard.
Deddington, Oxfordshire: Philip Allan Updates, 2005.
Student guide to MilPT and the GP description of the Miller (text included for GP selection only), with general information about CT and reading Chaucer, and more specific discussion of plot, characters, themes, genre, and techniques of MilT.…
The Miller's Prologue and Tale
King, Pamela M.
Harlow: Longman; London: York Press, 2000.
Study guide to MilPT and the GP description of the Miller that includes a plot synopsis, running commentary, and glosses (text not included, except for three passages in Middle English, with closer analysis). Also includes descriptions of the…